I live in a town that loves new restaurants. As soon as a new one opens the people will come but after awhile when another new one comes along then where are the people that first came?
It is the devil's lie that if we build it the people will come. That is what he has been telling the church growth people for years. Just build it, change a few core spiritual practices while holding to the core spiritual values and then they will come. The problem is that when you change the way we do church then it is very easy to down play the core spiritual values. It is not that they are not believed or that they are not part of the statement of faith but they are not stressed. So out goes sin, the cross, and eventually Bible based sermons. The fact is that some may come but when you try to teach them the core spiritual values they are not interested, they see the deception and they won't fall for it.
Now I am going to step on a few toes. A number of years ago it was decided that there would be an evangelistic service in the evenings and a teaching service in the morning. People would come because it was the best show in town but something happened and the unsaved, unchurched stopped coming but the Sunday evening service remained unchanged. One day someone woke up and said it isn't working so lets get rid of it but the problem was that it was there for the wrong reason in the first place. Sunday evenings are a great teaching time if used properly.
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